Dowel Jones — Dale Hardiman & Adam Lynch — Melbourne, Australia

Dale Hardiman and Adam Lynch are the two designers behind young Melbourne-based studio Dowel Jones, which is now blazing a trail across Australia with its playful aesthetic, locally focused production, affordable pricing and clean, simple design — recently launched two brand-new furniture collections — Tim Ber and Bradley Hooper.

In the beginning there was light — The Mr. Dowel Jones fixing-free rubber and oak standing lamp, to be precise — and RMIT industrial design students Dale Hardiman and Adam Lynch saw that it was good. Having collaborated on the lamp while part of Melbourne collective Lab De Stu, the pair realised they had the potential to spin this one-off project into a fully-fledged design brand.